Posted on 12/14/2008 6:37:20 AM PST by csvset
OTTAWA — Paul Anka’s wife was arrested after the Ottawa-born singer was cut in the head by a piece of ice during a recent domestic dispute, but prosecutors say they won’t pursue the case.
Anka was struck during an argument with his wife, Anna Anka, after an ice bucket fell to the floor on Nov. 28, according to the gossip website tmz.com. Anka went to the hospital, where he received stitches.
When Anka returned home, his wife was gone and he reported her missing to the police. After she returned to the couple’s home in Thousand Oaks, just outside Los Angeles, police arrested her for felony domestic battery, the website said.
The Ottawa-born singer told tmz.com: “It was a stupid little event. It was nothing.” He does not intend to press charges.
Anka could not be reached for comment Saturday, but he spoke to his cousin, Donald Abraham, about it.
“It’s an unimportant event that has been blown up out of proportion. That’s his view,” said Abraham, a real-estate agent in Ottawa.
He said he spoke Friday with Anka after news of the incident broke over several gossip websites and said that Anka did not have much else to add.
“They’re fine really,” said Abraham, adding that in his recent conversations with Anka the incident hasn’t come up at all.
The Ventura County district attorney’s office rejected the case, although it didn’t explain the reasons for dropping it, according to tmz.com.
Anka, 67, and his wife, Anna, 37, have been together for about four years. They are the parents of a boy, Ethan, and she has a daughter, Elli, from a previous marriage. The couple were married in July in a romantic ceremony in Sardinia.
Ottawa Citizen
Oh man, I just relived my entire career. ShoBiz is full of guys like that. I spent 40 years ducking.
I agree. She can’t be 37 unless she is on meth.
She’s as cold as ice and she’s willing to sacrifice...their love.
>Oh man, I just relived my entire career. ShoBiz is full of guys like that. I spent 40 years ducking.<
Well, as Paul Anka says in that audio clip, “That’s just the f***ing way it is”
In most places, it isn't up to him, it's the state that presses charges.
The one on the left is actually a lot prettier...
Give Anka a break. Those guys blew their performance. They were not doing what they should have been doing on stage. He chewed them out and they deserved it.
“That dude looks like a lady...!”
“she has ‘crazy eyes.’”
If she was a horse, I wouldn’t walk behind her.
If she had had a gun, we’d be singing “Put some lead in my shoulder.”
Nah, “Jeeze, guys, hit the cut-off” is a response to somebody missing a cue. That was your basic “I’m a big shot and you’re nothing” tantrum. Those guys usually ended up surrounded by the kind of people who couldn’t get jobs anyplace else. That, in turn produced more rants. It still worked until the big shot ended up with a crew that was so incompetent that even making them fear there own shadows didn’t get a decent job out of them, and often that took a long time. I watched one top director go from ‘A’ specials to directing kiddies shows in some backwater town in Canada because none of the competent Hollywood crews would work for him.
But, on the other hand, assuming you’ve heard the famous Casey Kasem rant, it’s never hurt him. He’s been able to carry the load himself and is still working. I also have a not-so-fond memory of being the target of a Bob Hope rant when he wandered into my room because his driver had taken him to the wrong facility and I (who’d never met him before) didn’t know where he was supposed to be. It’s just showbiz stuff.
Guess she won’t be “havin’ his baby.”
I’m still po’d at that beeotch that killed Phil Hartman.
She looks “rode hard and put up wet”!
True—but Anka looks like a toad. Bad combination!
Trophy bride?
“Kind of looks like Willem Defoe, huh?”
Not so much as I’d kick her out of bed.
IMO, they both look evil.
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